Holy House of Mercy

This guide to the Holy House of Mercy in Macau follows Dom Belchior Carneiro, who arrived from Portugal in fifteen sixty-eight and, within a year, built a hospital on this square that admitted Christians and non-Christians alike. It traces his further work founding a leper asylum on the city's edge, where he attended patients himself, and how the institution went on to shelter orphans and widows for centuries. Listen for how a bishop's short visit turned into a lifelong calling.